Category Archives: Civil Society
Civic Engagement and Wellbeing
A recent Gallup survey found that, worldwide, people who self-identified as having a higher personal wellbeing are more likely to be civically engaged than other residents More
Parties and Civic Engagement
It has become rather popular these days to lamblast partisanship as a prime enemy of public deliberation. More
In Praise of Community-Based Planning
Dudley Street in Boston, has made major changes on both aesthetic and environmental improvements thanks to community-based planning:
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Alexandria Playgrounds
The City of Alexandria, VA is working with residents on a project that includes some aspects of this latter end of the civic engagement spectrum More
Civic Health Snapshot
Several months ago we released the 2011 Golden Governance report in collaboration with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCOC). More